Oak Cottage

Oak Cottage is a house that has been divided into three dwellings. It has a late 16th century core, which was partly rebuilt and extended in the early 17th century, further extended and partially reroofed in the 18th century, and altered in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame with plaster and some brick, topped with a thatched roof.

The structure consists of a two-bay core located to the left of center, which likely served as a parlour, rebuilt to the right to form a three-hall, cross passage, and service bays, creating a three-cell cross passage plan. The left bay was added and subdivided to serve as a second service bay, resulting in a long four-bay range with a central stack. The cottage is one storey with an attic.

The right half has a cross passage entrance in the center, featuring a fielded four-panelled architraved door, flanked by two and three-light glazing bar casements with hood boards, and a two-light eyebrow dormer. To the left, there are two boarded doors leading into the early left bay and the later service bay, along with two-light 20th century casements and another two-light eyebrow dormer. The central ridge stack is prominent, and the right gable end attic has a two-light metal frame early leaded casement. The left end is brick with a removed stack and a pentice board, featuring an attic two-light metal frame glazing bar casement.

At the rear right, there is a boarded cross passage door, a three-light part opening casement, and an upper lattice leaded light. The rear left has 19th and 20th century brick and clay lump lean-to outshuts.

Inside, much of the frame is concealed. The parlour features a bar stop chamfered cross axial binding beam on stop chamfered storey posts, and a 16th century segmental arched door head that has been reset for a disused lobby entrance. The stairs are located in front of the stack, with edge halved scarf joints in the wallplates of the early bays and struts from the principals to a raised tie beam in the parlour chamber. The roof has arched windbraces to the side purlin. The 17th century bays include a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and storey posts, with blocked three-light diamond mullioned window openings, reflecting the 18th century reroofing.